Rose Rent at Zion Church Ground in Chambersburg
For 175 years a rose will be accepted in payment of annual rent on the grounds of Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church in Chambersburg Pa. John Krebs Benchoff, 15, seventh generation heir, delivers the rose this Sunday June 19. The article traces the Rose Rent tradition and its historic roots to Col. Benjamin Chambers and the town’s founding.
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John Krebs
Benjamin Chambers
Jane Wiliams Chambers
Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
Chambersburg
John Krebs Benchoff
Eller Benchoff
Hood College
Zion Church
Col. Chambers
Fort Chambers
William Williams
Swere
James and
Caton
Maryland
Virginia
England
Scotland
House of York
House of Lancaster
Frederick
Veterans Hood and Goode Retire From Brunswick Elementary
Two Brunswick teachers Miss M L Hood and Mrs Hazel Goode retired after 28 years teaching at Brunswick Elementary. Graduates of Maryland State Normal School Towson Class of 1917, they taught together before relocating to 314 and 311 West Potomac Street. Community celebrated with a life history depiction and remarks on vision safety.
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M. Lavenia Hood
Hazel Goode
Brunswick
Maryland State Normal School
Towson
Brunswick Pfa
Mise Hood
Mrs Goode
Fourmur
Hazel Wayble
Fase
West Potomac Street
Immunity Advance Against Lockjaw Through Toxoid Vaccination
Doctors urge early tetanus protection with tetanus toxoid injections for children and adults at risk. The article notes civilian and military use since World War II, boosters if later injury occurs, and minimal side effects. A divorce decree and industrial transport notes follow in a mixed column.
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Ossie
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Rose
Earl L. Douglass
Miss Lavenia Hood
Hazel N. Goode
Colon
Springfield
Trinidad
G. L
Bill
Fisher Frederick
Lockijaw
Edwin P. Jordan
NEA
Amon
Equity Court
Giannis M Betts C. Bowser
Center Street
Panald W.bowser
Wilbin F. Sheffield Jrt
Mey
Bowser
Edwin F. Sikirk
McCrory
Harmony Grove
Carnation Instant
Libby
Hershey
Campbell
Dorsey
Riddlemoser
ASSIS
U. S. NO
Holiday Progen Foods
Minute Maid
Dulany
Dulany Fordhook Limas
Musselman’s
Calif
Bartlett
Hamilton’s
East Patrick ST
Pen-Del Fond
Pen-Del Farms
25Th Street
Baltimore
Pen-Del Farm of Md., Inc
25Th St
Hopkins
J Ross
Benjamin Moore
Moore
de Gal
Benjamin A Moor
Thomas Hardware CO
South Market Street
Father
SPORT
Schroeder
Patrick Street
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